On the weekend my brother and I tripped off to Melbourne to Australia's International Airshow based in Avalon. My brother flies aircraft himself and I like well built machines so we both loved it. Melbourne weather isn't that great from what I've heard but It was absolutely perfect for the 2 days we were there. I had my OM-D and 40-150 which I used most of the time and occasionally put on the PL25. For some reason I took out the 7-14 and It was one of those stupid mistakes, but oh well. We were allowed about 30 meters from the runway so everything was fairly close and the I had no worries with not enough reach using the 40-150. I found it wasn't that fast to lock on focus but you learn to pan and make do with what you have. The PL25 had no problems with focus lock.
I have never seen so many huge lenses in one place, it was insane guys. One fella had a nikon lens so big he put it on the ground to connect the camera.

I know sometimes plane pictures are boring so I've tried to add some interesting ones. My aim is to show that m43 gear can deliver and I loved walking around the 2 days with my om-d.

best,

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I couldn't help but take a picture

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Aerobatic pilot Skip Stewart and his Pitt's special

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Add some atmosphere surrounding the show. Small part of a crowed of 100,000

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Reliving the Golden Days with the graceful flight staring the Catalina. RAAF Maritime AP3C Orion flying in the background

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The full blood aussie boomerang. Designed and produced in 90 days. The hight pitch whistle this machine made as it flew past was the best aye. If you have the chance to hear one of these things fly it's worth it.

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USAF F22 Raptor. The most advanced fighter Jet in the world.

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RAAF pilots talking about what they do in their FA18's

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Only having a PL25 as my widest lens made it a bit hard to back far enough to get the Dinosaur of a machine in the frame. The C17 Globemaster can lift 73 ton of payload and costs a whopping $380 million.

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The no nonsense interior of the C17

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One of the best known aircraft from WW2 and with the Hurricane has shaped the western world as we know it. The legendary Spitfire.

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Jet Star flies in on a commercial passenger flight! You'd certainly want to do a good landing with 100,000 people watching!

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Nice work mate, and the weather sure does look 100 times better than what we had up here! Those Boomerangs always were a stubby looking thing. I think I saw one once at an air show at the RAAF base at Amberley.

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